Morphosis - Diamond Ranch High School: Source Books in Architecture: 1

Morphosis/Diamond Ranch High School represents the first installment in Source Books in Architecture, a new series from The Monacelli Press, based on the Herbert Baumer seminars hosted at the Knowlton School of Architecture at The Ohio State University. These publications will focus on a single work by a particular architect and on special topics in contemporary architecture. Forthcoming volumes will examine the work of Steven Holl, Bernard Tschumi, Zaha Hadid, and Herzog & de Meuron.

Morphosis/Diamond Ranch High School opens with an interview with Thom Mayne, principal of the avant-garde California architecture firm Morphosis. The interview outlines Mayne’s working methods and chronicles his development as an architect from his years as a student through the realization of such influential projects as the widely published Crawford House. This is followed by a presentation of a single project, Diamond Ranch High School, outside of Los Angeles, at a level of detail not normally found in architectural monographs. Here every crucial architectural decision is extensively illustrated with conceptual sketches, models, renderings, working drawings, and photographs of the project under construction and after completion.

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ISBN 1-58093-079-4
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